As she was leaving the Art building on Thursday, our colleague Marc Raboy told Carrie to “take some time off, it’s a holiday weekend, you know.” Sometimes, that’s all you need. We took yesterday off and had the luxury of sitting around and talking forever, and then going shopping around town. We started with Zone …
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Our new work permits arrived today and that is the day that they expire. I consider it a minor miracle that we got more that a year’s renewal (which is the normal amount of time) and that they came back this fast. By 31 July 2007, if all goes well, we will have found the …
It’s that “I’m so busy I’m so busy I’m so busy” time of the semester again, so of course I’m blogging instead of writing. Actually procrastinating other work. I’m particularly pleased because one of my advisees just landed her first tenure-track job. Maybe Full Professors get jaded about this kind of thing, but I’m thrilled. …
A report from the front lines of student debt: http://thesmokingsection.blogspot.com/2005/03/skinny-on-student-strike.html. Back to work for me.
My friend Dave Noon is once again auctioning off Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. It got him permanently banned from ebay last year. Check it out at http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/auction/89532071?aucview=0x70.
Good to see some responses on the strike stuff. The big news now is that there are two more actions planned. The Student Society of McGill University is going on another 1-day strike on Thursday the 24th and there’s some big province-wide thing on Wednesday the 30th. I was downtown on Saturday and it seemed …
This is another one for the Bad Subjects website. Go on over and have a look at what I wrote. Yesterday’s protest was indeed wild, since it was my first Canadian protest. Bigger and louder than anything I remember in the U.S. It would be an understatement to say that I was impressed. This weekend …
